FANS of football superstar Michael Owen have a chance to buy the ultimate momento, as his childhood home in North Wales is up for sale.

The five-bedroom detached house in Cromwell Close, Hawarden, Flintshire, is where Owen lived as a schoolboy and where he stayed for a period after he hit the big time.

He then bought a whole street of new executive houses for himself and his family down the road at Ewloe.

And he is shortly to move into his new &#xA3;1.6m manor house, only a stone's throw

FOOTBALL START: The five-bedroomed detached house in Cromwell Close, Hawarden, with the "For Sale" sign in the garden away at Sychdyn.

Fans who want to buy his childhood home will have to fork out &#xA3;190,000 for the detached property.

Estate agents, Thomas C Adams, are not marketing the house as Owen's former home, but expect it to be snapped up quickly because it is a five-bedroom house in a quiet cul-de-sac. The firm said there had been a lot of interest in the house, not just from Michael Owen fans but generally, because it was such a nice house.

Work is going on at historic Soughton Hall at Sychdyn to make it ready as a home for the Liverpool and England star - including a new gate system to provide extra security.

Also planned is a new luxury swimming pool and fitness centre to help keep him trim.

Owen also wants a snooker room added to the hall and new horses' boxes outside.

Owen is a keen rider. The Liverpool striker is said to have purchased an extra 30 acres alongside the hall, from former Redrow company boss Steven Morgan, to keep his horses. Inside, Owen is planning a cosy country home for his family. Architects say that some of the fireplaces at the historic hall will be opened up "to hopefully rediscover the inglenooks" underneath.

Owen will also try out his green fingers in his own historic garden.

The garden was laid out in 1937 by the eminent landscape architect Dame Sylvia Crowe.